SECTION 1. Tennessee Code Annotated, Section 49-5-710(a)(2), is amended by adding the following sentences at the end of the subdivision as follows:

Upon verification by a written statement from an adoption agency or other entity handling an adoption, a teacher may also be allowed to use up to thirty (30) days of accumulated sick leave for adoption of a child. If both adoptive parents are teachers, only one parent is entitled to leave under this subsection.

SECTION 2. This act shall take effect upon becoming a law, the public welfare requiring it.